Accommodation Processes During the Early Years of Marriage

Rusbult, Caryl E.; Bissonnette, Victor; Arriaga, Ximena B.; Cox, Chante L.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511527814.005

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“…Although the participation rate at baseline was comparable to or exceeded other recent studies of newlywed couples (e.g., Rusbult, Bissonnette, Arriaga, & Cox, 1998;Veroff, Douvan, Orbuch, & Acitelli, 1998), a significant proportion of recruited couples did not return their questionnaires and there were some differences between couples who completed the initial assessment and those who did not. Over the four waves of data collection, we maintained 81% of wives, and 71% of husbands.…”

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Predictors of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the first 4 years of marriage.

Leonard

Homish

2008

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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This study investigated the factors predictive of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the early years of marriage, focusing on the premarital drinking and relatively stable individual risk and protective factors that were present prior to marriage, and on social-interpersonal factors that may change or emerge over marriage. Newlywed couples were assessed at the time of marriage, and at the 1 st , 2 nd , and 4 th anniversaries with respect to frequency of heavy drinking and the extent of drinking problems, and a variety of factors that have been found to be predictive of adult alcohol problems. The results indicated that antisocial characteristics, family history of alcoholism, negative affect, and alcohol expectancies were related to heavy drinking and alcohol problems at the time of marriage. Changes after marriage were predicted by the drinking of one's partner and of one's peers and by alcohol expectancies for social/physical pleasure for both men and women. In addition, the quality of the marriage was longitudinally protective from the experience of alcohol problems for both men and women, although it was not related to changes in heavy drinking. KeywordsAlcohol Problems; Drinking Patterns; Marital Functioning; Partner Influence; Peer Influence Theoretical approaches to excessive drinking and alcohol problems have shifted from risk factor and person-environment interaction models to probabilistic-developmental models (e.g., Zucker, 2004) that incorporate person-environmental interactions into a broader developmental psychopathology approach (Windle & Davies, 1999). These models emphasize an array of biological, psychological, and social processes, sometimes acting in concert and sometimes in opposition to each other. This model argues that alcohol use and alcohol problems both affect and are affected by maturational processes and phase-specific transitional events. As Zucker, Fitzgerald, and Moses (1995) (p. 686). From this perspective, understanding the development of heavy drinking and alcohol problems is fostered by focusing on transitional events, particularly those that introduce, remove, or reorganize the biological, psychological, or social influences on drinking.One of the most important psychosocial transitional events is marriage, an event experienced by more than 70% of men and women by age 35 (Fields, 2003). Marriage carries with it a variety of tasks that can fundamentally alter an individual's view of self, as well as how the broader social network behaves toward the individual and the couple. At the psychological level, there is often a marked shift away from more individualistic values and toward more interdependent and socially positive values, consistent with the adoption of the new role of spouse. There is also often a major reorganization of the social network involving the reestablishment or redefinition of ties, both as individuals and as a couple, with each member's extended family and peer network (Boss, 1983;McGoldrick & Carter, 1982).In addition to these psycho-socia...

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Predictors of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the first 4 years of marriage.

Leonard

Homish

2008

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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“…Because reciprocity of negative behavior is the hallmark of unhappy relationships, several researchers have highlighted the importance of the partners' ability to restrain the tendency to respond to negativity with more negativity (e.g., Gottman 1999, Rusbult et al 1998 and to overlook the partner's negative behavior or otherwise respond with Compassionate Love to the partner's shortcomings.…”

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Love in the Fourth Dimension

Berscheid

2010

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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Psychologists' efforts to understand love began in the mid-twentieth century. The fact that they continue apace in the twenty-first century reflects increased awareness of the importance of love to understanding relationship phenomena and acknowledgment that an understanding of love has yet to be achieved. This article (a) describes one source of increased recognition that the present confusions surrounding love must be transcended if progress is to be made in understanding many relationship phenomena; (b) discusses the failure to explicate the love construct, which constitutes the major obstacle to the study of love phenomena; (c) discusses the need for a temporal model of love in relationships; and (d ) suggests that it is important to consider the presence or absence of four types of love, each of which appears to be associated with different causal conditions and thus is likely to have a different temporal course as an adult relationship moves through time.1

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“…Using previous research, they began with a list of behaviors that fit into the four behavioral reaction categories (active destructive, passive destructive, active constructive, and passive constructive; Canary, Cupach, & Messman, 1995;Putnam & Wilson, 1982;Rusbult et al, 1998;Straus, 1979). Then they met weekly to redefine and add codes.…”

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Age Differences in Exposure and Reactions to Interpersonal Tensions: A Daily Diary Study.

Birditt¹,

Fingerman²,

Almeida³

2005

Psychology and Aging

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This study examines age differences in exposure and reactivity to interpersonal tensions. The data are from the National Study of Daily Experiences in which participants ages 25 to 74 (N ϭ 666) completed phone interviews wherein they described interpersonal tensions and rated the stressfulness of the tensions each evening for 8 days. Coders rated descriptions for types of behavioral reactions. Multilevel models revealed older adults reported fewer interpersonal tensions, were more likely to report tensions with spouses, were less likely to report tensions with children, experienced less stress, and were less likely to argue and more likely to do nothing in response to tensions than were younger adults. Age differences in emotional and behavioral reactions did not appear to be due to variations in exposure to tensions. The discussion centers on why older people may be better able to regulate their reactions to problems than younger people.

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Accommodation Processes During the Early Years of Marriage

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Predictors of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the first 4 years of marriage.

Predictors of heavy drinking and drinking problems over the first 4 years of marriage.

Love in the Fourth Dimension

Age Differences in Exposure and Reactions to Interpersonal Tensions: A Daily Diary Study.

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